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Caldo Verde – Potato, Cabbage & Sausage Soup

January 21, 2011
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Caldo Verde is now a national Portuguese dish, one which is often served at gatherings and for some reason at barbeques.   A soup well loved by the population for its taste but also because it evokes childhood memories.  It’s a creamy soup with cabbage strands and the light smoke flavour from the sausage.  Originally […]

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Egg-free and Dairy-free Chicken Goujons (Chicken Nuggets)

October 30, 2010
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When I made these goujons for my daughters’ lunch today I had the plate above by the kitchen window ready for photographing.  When the oldest and middle daughter walked into the kitchen and saw them they both said, “Why don’t you serve a plate of chicken nuggets to us like this?” and then the oldest […]

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Does This Look Too Phallic?

October 8, 2010
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While I was in the middle of posting Work In Progress: Gluten Free Corncakes, and trying to decide which photo was going to appear at the top of the post, I asked Bikerboy’s opinion if he thought the above photo was a good photo to use at the top, I couldn’t decide between two.  He […]

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Hotel Iturregi, Getaria, Spain – A Perfect Getaway If It Weren’t For Rules

September 12, 2010
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How could you not fall in love with this place?  Look at the view of  little hills and ocean beyond.  Hotel Iturregi is the perfect getaway.  Although it calls itself a hotel I would describe it more as a guest house, it has 8 rooms, all individually and expensively decorated with designer bathrooms, fits into […]

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Just Because I Haven’t Posted…

August 1, 2010
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…doesn’t mean I having been cooking and photographing!  If you’re a blogger you’ll understand when I say alongside the posts you publish you have these other half finished recipes you haven’t quite turned into entries.  Today when commenting on another friend’s blog Feast with Bron about a cucumber recipe I meant to post this summer […]

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HSBC and Me

June 14, 2010
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This is not the sort of thing I normally post about but I feel ever so smug about it I can’t help myself.  Having banked with HSBC for years I have the same complaints I often read about in the press other costumers have with their banks, terrible branch service, the lack of personal contact […]

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Hampton Court Palace, Our Annual Picnic and Coronation Chicken

June 13, 2010
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This week was our annual picnic and concert Bikerboy and I have been attending since we’ve been together; Hampton Court Palace Festival.  It’s like all things we do together often, it becomes a ritual.  Now and again we’ve attended the event with extra company be it parents, friends or the girls but this year we […]

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Rhubarb and Orange Blossom

May 20, 2010
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Last year I experimented with rhubarb and raspberries quite a bit, rhubarb and raspberry sorbet and a variation was adding some rose water…it’s a post I still have to move from my old blog to here….rhubarb and raspberries go well together not just for flavour but if you want your summer rhubarb to be luscious […]

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When a Farmers Market Lets You Down – Marylebone High Street

May 19, 2010
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A Morning Off I don’t live near a farmers market but very much like the idea of it, the principal of grower selling their best direct to consumer.  I love nothing more than browsing through markets when on holiday, I like to see the sort of foods the local growers have, the sort of cheeses, […]

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Failed Honey Cake – If you gonna fail at baking best to fail unexpectedly

January 28, 2010
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If you’ve going to fail at something but know half way through it’s going to fail then No Surprises No unfulfilled expectations No Sudden Loss.  I say if you’re going to fail make sure you fail at the last hurdle because up until then you’re  still full of hope and your naïve status will keep you […]

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Let it Snow, let it snow, let it snow

January 6, 2010
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It’s been a little crazy for the UK and we’re not used to this amount of snow and I’m sure those who live with snow knee high every winter must yawn, you’re going to just have to forgive the rest of us.  My dad who arrived today from Portugal hadn’t seen weather like this since […]

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Beetroot Salad with Ginger and Orange Dressing

January 6, 2010
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I served this beetroot salad with the gravadlax posted below and it was a winning combination but it’s too delicious to wait for the gravadlax you should make it next time you see a bunch of beetroot. I’m only roughly going to give a recipe because there’s nothing to it really and I can not […]

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